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This forum seemed a little bare and we just added a few articles on nutrition and diving to our Repository. Enjoy! -G http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/
This article has been in the system for a while.
Nutritional status of land-based US Navy Divers - Undersea Biomedical Research
Rubicon Research Repository Handle ID: 123456789/2488
There are a couple of interesting reports by the authors below that we could not put our hands on but these are pretty good reading.
Accession Number: ADA236280 Corporate Author: NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH INST BETHESDA MD Unclassified Title: (U) Recommended Dietary Menus for Use in Operational and Research Saturation Diving.
Rubicon Research Repository Handle ID: 123456789/3774
Accession Number: ADA222877 Corporate Author: NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH INST BETHESDA MD Unclassified Title: (U) Work Enhancement and Thermal Changes during Intermittent Work in Cool Water after Carbohydrate Loading.
Rubicon Research Repository Handle ID: 123456789/3775
Accession Number: ADA216816 Corporate Author: NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH INST BETHESDA MD Unclassified Title: (U) Dietary Plans for Carbohydrate Loading.
Rubicon Research Repository Handle ID: 123456789/3776
Accession Number: ADA236519 Corporate Author: NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH INST BETHESDA MD Unclassified Title: (U) Preliminary Diet and Hydration Guidelines for Diving to Depths to 150 FSW.
Rubicon Research Repository Handle ID: 123456789/3777
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It is also worth mentioning the following references pulled by Ginger Carden at the Duke Medical Center Library when we were talking a few days ago. These are from a rough database kept by a UHMS member (UHMS, membership gives you privileges... http://www.uhms.org/). I don't swear by the spelling on these...
BATCHELOR G 11871 Nutritional aspects of diving. NAUI News, p.4-5;July 1980.
SHOVKOPLYAS OA 5431 Nutrition in underwater living units: Review of literature. Vopr Pitan 3:60-64;1976.
CONTI V, SEGUI G 1711 [Nutrition of aquanauts]. Hesser C.M.and D.Linnarsson eds,Proc. of the first annual scientific meeting of the EUBS, Stockholm 13-15 June 1973. Farsvarsmedicin 9:472-474; July 1973.
GUANG-QING L, TING-GUI W, XIE-LIANG Z 8485 Nutrition studies during N2 -O2 saturation diving. Acta Nutr Sin 4(4): 329-333; 1982.
ROSSIER RN 29347 The basics of diver nutrition. Dive Training 1996 May: 32-37.
WHITFIELD K 36109 Nutrition and diving. Alert Diver, 2000 May/June; 32-35
NAKAMOTO T, PORTER JR 10055 Malnutrition and oxygen at high pressure: influence on collagen synthesis in lung and heart of the newborn rat. Aviat Space Environ Med 55:528-533;1984., HBO Rev 1984 Oct;5(4):227.
DRAGUZYA MD, VLASOV VV 3348 [Effect of nutritional fat loads and state of the blood coagulation system on resistance of animals to pulmonary gas embolisms]. Kosm Biol Aviakosm Med 12(3):81-82;1978.
KAYSER B 28390 Nutrition and energetics of exercise at altitude. Theory and possible practical implications. Sports Med 1994 May; 17(5): 309-23. (96 refs.)
Today we started putting together a Suggested Reading List for the contents of the Rubicon Research Repository. It was inspired by this thread. We will maintain this list as we add more to the RRR.